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FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY

It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance--and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

Team members who strongly agree that they trust their team leader are eight times as likely to be fully engaged as those who don't.

Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

We can transcend the script of a pre-defined story, and pave the way for the future that we design. We just need to tap that power, that conviction, that determination within us.

Robert F. Smith

Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization.

Indra Nooyi

If we hope to achieve racial equality in this country, we need leaders who are authentic, committed, and engaged; leaders from all different realms who use their voices and platforms to effect systemic change.

Jason Wingard

Sometimes a dream almost whispers… it never shouts. It's very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.

Stephen Spielberg

Focusing on our differences is easy and divisive; leveraging what we have in common is harder but will effect positive change for all.

Edith Cooper

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

Do what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's only after you've stepped outside of your comfort zone that you being to change, grow and transform.

Roy T. Bennett

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Buckminster Fuller

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

Being American is more than a pride we inherit; it's the past we step into and how we repair it.

Amanda Gorman

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George Sheehan

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Helen Keller

When we feel urgency, we make room for hope. We allow for focus, and we are motivated by a larger goal.

Steve White

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Dee Hock

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Zig Ziglar

They always say that time changes things, but you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

If your actions inspired others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Simon Sinek

When you're leading a new team, honor the new team and its past, and then build them a bridge to the future. Too many leaders inherit a new team and want to share how much success they had in the past and how good their old organization or team was.

Peter Barron Stark

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Barack Obama

Never underestimate the importance of the words "please" and "thank you." Using them demonstrates a level of respect that people desire and appreciate, which can help build trust.

Michael Timmes

When I write a goal down – and I truly write them down – it becomes a part of me. That’s a contract that I sign with myself to say, "I don’t care what happens – I’m going to stay on this path. I’m going to give it my best shot, my best effort."

Gail Devers

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

Brian Tracy

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters

Sometimes the only way to change people is to change the people.

Ted Weinberger

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it.

Rick Warren

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Maya Angelou

Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

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